Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:42:18 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco J Reyes <fran@natserv.net> To: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recursion with grep? Message-ID: <20031113223951.X85161@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20031113183118.T3617@d66-183-123-52.bchsia.telus.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0311131524240.1234-100000@java2.dpcsys.com> <20031113183118.T3617@d66-183-123-52.bchsia.telus.net>
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Viktor Lazlo wrote: > If there are a large number of files this will call grep numerous > times--it would be more efficient to pass to xargs so grep is only called > a few times: > > find . -type f -print | xargs grep options string Although in my case the files are few I will keep this sample handy if I ever need to work on large number of files. I think I am going to research what would it take for someone to fix grep and pay them. How do think we would want grep to work? Do we want something like: grep -r <string> *.c If I get someone to change grep anyone care to comment on whether it would be difficult to get this imported into the tree?
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